*Ulquiorra is trying to keep his voice as flat and melancholy as usual, but observant people who know him well should be able to tell that the question he's asking has been eating at him for a while ( Read more... )

*The PCD seems to have come on by accident again and records several seconds of Ulquiorra in an empty room with a thoughtful frown, glaring at nothing. He gives the PCD a glance and walks over and the feed switches to private.*

( Private to Orihime/Hackable )

*The feed clicks on to show Ulquiorra in his house, looking slightly distracted.* Part Shinigami...part pure soul? Hn...merely a different way of interpreting the nature of my abilities...

*The voice is faint, as though the speaker wasn't holding the PCD, but the words are still easy t make out.* The heart…the word comes much more easily now. Such a simple concept. It’s surprising it took me so long to grasp it. Though it should be too late to matter. Why am I still alive? Is this because of the heart, too?